The Pilgrim and the Bee: Reading Rituals and Book Culture in Early New England
Matthew P. Brown
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Hardback. "The Pilgrim and the Bee makes a broad claim about a reading-centered history, reclaiming for this purpose a distinctive body of texts. Brown's analysis marks an important step toward a better history of reading."-David D. Hall, Harvard University Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 3JB; CFC; DSBD; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 608.
We conventionally understand the book as a vessel for words, a place where the reader goes to have a private experience with written language. But readers' relationships with books are much more complex. In The Pilgrim and the Bee, Matthew P. Brown examines book culture and the rituals of reading in early New England, ranging across almanacs, commonplace books, wonder tales, funeral elegies, sermon notes, conversion relations, and missionary tracts. What emerges is a new understanding of the book at once as a material good, existing within the economies of buying, selling, giving, and receiving; as an object of reverence ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
Series
Material Texts
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812240153
SKU
V9780812240153
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About Matthew P. Brown
Matthew P. Brown teaches English and is Director of the Center for the Book at the University of Iowa.
Reviews for The Pilgrim and the Bee: Reading Rituals and Book Culture in Early New England
"The Pilgrim and the Bee makes a broad claim about a reading-centered history, reclaiming for this purpose a distinctive body of texts. Brown's analysis marks an important step toward a better history of reading."
David D. Hall, Harvard University
"As befits a book about books as objects, The Pilgrim and the Bee adds aesthetic satisfactions to its intellectual ... Read more
David D. Hall, Harvard University
"As befits a book about books as objects, The Pilgrim and the Bee adds aesthetic satisfactions to its intellectual ... Read more